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I Newsletter I Mar 2021 I a Bi-Monthly Update Published by the Yorkshire RFU I Newsletter I Mar 2021 I A bi-monthly update published by the Yorkshire RFU Welcome from Tony McNally - President of the Yorkshire Rugby Football Union Welcome to our latest Newsletter and I hope you are all safe and well At last, we appear to have a light at the end of the tunnel. In line with the Roadmap, we can start our pathway back to playing our beloved game 29 March and hopefully playing by the end of April England Rugby is in process of drawing up plans for the way forward on our return. This will include how the rest of season will pan out and how far we can continue playing through the spring and summer months. Unfortunately, all league rugby, age grade and county rugby will be lost. We were trying to put together a Tri county tournament with Lancashire and Cheshire but this also has not materialised. The Academy has been training through and we are hopeful that they should be able to start their programme of games when given the green light. It is anticipated that you should be able to open your clubs up in May to enjoy the feeling of being part of the rugby family as before. Moving forward will be difficult and strange and we will need all the support of our volunteers that help us play our game. It will be important to re-engage everyone involved with your club especially the players who, after 12 months away, might need some additional encouragement. We, at the Yorkshire RFU, will help in any way we can to assist with the restart. During the summer, we will need to focus on restarting our structured season and again will need an army of volunteers to make sure we are ready. This is particularly true for match officials as we can’t play without them. Details of a wide range of courses that will run through the summer will be announced as they come available. These will include refereeing and coaching. I hope as things ease that I will be able to get to visit as many of you as I can. Stay safe Tony McNally | Yorkshire RFU President In this edition of the newsletter Update on fixtures | Return to Rugby Community Roadmap | Strategy Development | Girls’ Development Opportunities | Celebrating women in rugby union |RFU Club Development North Yorkshire Rugby Academy | Volunteering opportunities | Communications and Marketing support | New Diversity and Inclusion Lead | Immediate Support Fund Yorkshire Rugby Schools’ Union | Mitsubishi Volunteer Development Programme Election of RFU Representative | Reflections from an RFU Rep | Volunteer Recognition Programme Yorkshire Marketplace | England Rugby Training Courses Update on fixtures The cancellation of the RFU league structure and the lockdown between January to March 29th has created a barren rugby landscape. There is good news however as the RFU Roadmap will from March 29th allow Ready4Rugby and Contact Training, with adapted law matches taking place from April 26th. Yorkshire Competitions will not be involved in organising any fixtures which are friendlies. We have received a proposal from a club to organise Yorkshire Cup matches in August, and this will be discussed at our next meeting on March 30th. If approval is granted clubs will be asked if they wish to take part. Further information will follow. David Towler, who has been Secretary of Yorkshire Competitions for 10 seasons, is retiring at the end of this season. David has been an influential member of the group and he will be difficult to be replaced. We’d liked to take this opportunity to thank him for his service to rugby in Yorkshire over the last decade. Return to Rugby Community Roadmap We are at Stage D1 of the Return to Rugby Community Roadmap. The Roadmap has been updated and all of the information can be found on the England Rugby website here You find some detailed Stage D guidance here Stage D Guidance Here’s some detail of how England Rugby see the Roadmap rolling out over March, April and May. When the Government Roadmap moves to Step One B – no earlier than Monday 29 March • Adult and age grade community rugby (including schools and colleges) may resume at Stage D1. All of the information • O2 Touch, Tag and Ready4Rugby training and matches are permitted within the club and against other clubs. can be found on the We will confirm travel guidance when published by government. England Rugby • Contact training (excluding scrums and mauls) is permitted to introduce contact gradually and prepare players website here physically for the next stage on the Return to Rugby Roadmap. Our guidance strongly recommends a maximum of 20 minutes contact in total per session, with regular hand sanitising breaks during and after contact You find some detailed skills training, and equipment should be cleaned after use. Players should avoid face-to-face exposure of more Stage D guidance than three seconds and more than 15 minutes of exposure at less than one metre with another player. here Stage D Guidance From Monday 26 April • Having had four weeks of contact training, adult and age grade community rugby will be able to return to Stage D2 on the Rugby Roadmap from Monday 26 April. • Again, guidance will recommend 20 minutes of contact training to be permitted (still excluding scrums and mauls). • Matches will be permitted with adapted laws (no scrums & mauls) against other clubs. Again, travel guidance to be confirmed as above. • Guidance for playing friendly matches over the summer will follow over the next few weeks to support maximising player retention and welfare. • Matches will not be obligatory. It will be clubs’ and players’ individual choice as to when they feel ready to return to contact rugby. Please ensure players are given enough time to condition themselves physically, with a gradual return to contact built in. Ready4Rugby, O2 Touch and Tag can still be played if preferred. When the Government Roadmap moves to Step Three – no earlier than Monday 17 May • Adult and age grade community rugby likely to progress to Stage E1. • It’s anticipated that full contact training will be permitted (including scrums and mauls). Two weeks after Stage E1 has been reached – no earlier than Monday 31 May • It is anticipated that adult community rugby will progress to Stage E2. • Adult full contact matches would then be permitted. • The current age grade season ends on Monday 31 May. (See above for further information). • Some off-field restrictions likely to still apply. Developing a strategy for rugby union in our county Since mid-December, a Task and Finish Group of the Yorkshire Committee has been working on the County’s three to five-year Strategic Plan. The development approach and the strategy are mirroring England Rugby’s national approach providing a consistent and connected approach for the County. The development process is being informed by engagement with our stakeholders. Two zoom engagement sessions have been held with officers of the County, club chairs and other club officials, club & County coaches and club & County players. We’ve also had input from age grade administrators and referees. In total over 70 individuals were involved in providing feedback to the Strategic Planning Group. The Group will be sharing those views and thoughts and the final Strategy will be published in June 2021. Girls’ Development Opportunities We’re pleased to say that we have the support of England Rugby in running three Girls’ Development Days in the summer. These will be for the Under18 Age Group. The Development Days will take place on 24 July, 31 July and 7 August, and we plan to use different venues for each of the sessions. Further details and joining instruction will be advised once the plans are finalised. Dawn Rathmell | Rugby Development Chair Luke Pendlebury | Satellite Lead Coach Celebrating women in rugby union On International Women’s Day, we celebrated the incredible contribution some amazing players have made to the development of rugby union for women in our County. We awarded representative Caps to 56 players who represented our County in the 1990s. We awarded each of these representative Caps with our appreciation and gratitude. These players demonstrated that rugby union is a game for all and they built the path that the current generation of women players are following. We were made aware in the autumn that these trailblazing women had not been awarded County Caps in recognition of their achievement, and we’re grateful to Gillian Jew for raising this with us. Since then, Hayley Lister has been working on behalf of the Yorkshire RFU, with Gillian, to identify those players who should be awarded their representative Cap. We’d like to thank them for their work on this issue. Together they’ve identified 56 players – each one wore the white rose with pride and represented our County in matches against Lancashire in the 1990s. As there may have only been one County game per season for this group, we’re awarding one Cap on the basis of one or more appearances for the County. We also know that this is just the start. We may not have identified everyone and there will be more women in our rugby community who are entitled to this recognition. Please get in touch with us if you represented the County and have not received your representative Cap. We now need the players to get in touch with us. We may not have up to date contact details so we need these to be sent to the County Office at [email protected]. Once we have this information, we’ll send your representative Cap to you.
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